What is Data Warehousing?
Data warehousing provides business performance reporting for longer term decision making. Longer term decision making is based on trends, the popular ones being sales revenue trends and profitability trends. Historical data is stored to enable long term trends. Data warehouse copies the data from the operational systems, but data warehousing does NOT provide operational reporting for immediate decision making. For example, data warehousing does not provide a current-to-the-last-minute view of the customer that can be used by the call center rep to service the customer call.
Data Warehousing’s purpose is to facilitate end-user analysis of data by providing information to distinct communities of interest. Visit the Data Warehousing website for more information. Panic Section Note: If you’re panicking – You have to get this eGC1 out the door right now… *Take a deep breath. There is a solution to your problem if you think calmly and clearly. *Look at the error or problem.
